Search: calle blomkvist
Why: I am halfway through The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, and for the 23rd time, Lisbeth has referred to Mikael Blomkvist as "Kalle fucking Blomkvist." I understand this character to be some sort of friend of Pippi Longstocking, who I now know is Swedish. He seems to be a well-known kind of guy in Sweden - and Stieg Larsson seems to have been making some sort of huge joke about these names - but I've never heard of him.
Answer: Well, here are some versions:
I don't know which one he is. ^
Those movies ^ are from 1996 and 1997. Lisbeth was born in 1978, so she totes would have known about these films.
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The More You Know: In these great United States, Kalle Blomkvist's name is Bill Bergson. He is the Swedish Veronica Mars, except younger and dumber and probably less hilarious. Adults ignore him!, so he solves murders and kidnappings and whatnot with the help of his ragtag gang of charming names: Anders, Eva-Lotta, Sixten, Jonte (Jonte!!), and Benka - but not Pippi. Author Astrid Lindgren wrote 3 books about him:
- Bill Bergson, Master Detective (1946) (original title: Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist)
- Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously (1951)
- Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue (1953)
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